LEGO Worlds: Heavily borrowed

LEGO Worlds is a strict departure from the series. Instead of focusing on a single licensed property, LEGO Worlds tries to gain the attention of the Minecraft audience by giving them the tools to create breathtaking worlds. You get multiple tools to shape the world how you see fit. The discovery tool lets you identify LEGO items including plants, trees, chairs, people and so on; and add them to your library. From there, you can purchase them and start placing them.

The landscaping tool lets you completely change the terrain while the copy tool, as the name suggests, creates a copy of any block within its selected range. You can also build blocks wherever you want and paint anything in the world. But, the camera often gets in the way, and it can be frustrating to get stuck in a simplistic task because the camera is either too zoomed in or not letting you see where you need to place the block.

After playing through three tutorial levels, you are thrown into a randomly generated world, allowing you to explore, complete quests and hunt for gold bricks. Players can let the game generate any number of worlds and travel between them at will. You will visit fairly standard collection of beaches, deserts, forests and other biomes; with their own plant and animal life.

Unfortunately, the game is highly repetitive as it lacks any sort of focus or direction, resulting in you doing the same tasks over and over. The main gameplay loop of LEGO Worlds revolves around talking to NPCs and solving their problems. You will come across simple tasks such as giving food to an animal or rescuing a trapped citizen, but other quests require proper utilisation of the tools available to you. After completing a quest, they will give you an item which will help you finish other quests or you will be rewarded with a gold brick.

After earning 100 gold bricks, you unlock the ability to choose the details of the world the game will create. In addition, they must also unlock all the blocks they want to use by discovering them. All the items are not available from start for those looking to simply use their creative imagination in a world they have created.

LEGO Worlds borrows heavily from other games in the genre and tries to recreate the same charm. While the early parts of the game are quite engaging, it quickly becomes repetitive and tedious. The creation tools are not really user-friendly and doing mundane tasks to unlock different blocks is not at all fun. It’s indeed possible to showcase your awe-inspiring creations, but the path is filled with roadblocks.